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Help save Newtown’s history and the Pines Estate Heritage Conservation Area
The residents of Newtown invite you to join their peaceful protest against the potential resumption and demolition of their homes!
Saturday 14 August 12pm
Meet at the North End of Eveleigh Markets
Without your support, many local families face possible eviction from their homes. Please help us STOP this proposal.
What and where:
A peaceful protest, marching from Eveleigh Farmers Markets, via King Street and Hollis Park to a rally in Leamington Avenue
Saturday 14 August - 12pm - Eveleigh Markets North End
Speakers Programme:
1.05 Louise Alley President, SLA Inc
1.10 Carmel Tebbutt (MP) Deputy Premier, Minister for Health & Member for Marrickville
1.15 Gladys Berejiklian (MP) Opposition Spokesperson on Transport & Member for Willoughby
1.20 Cllr John McInerney (on behalf of Clover Moore, Mayor City of Sydney)
1.25 Fiona Byrne Deputy Mayor, Marrickville Council & Greens Candidate for the State seat of Marrickville
1.30 Peter Mills Ecotransit
1.35 Sylivio Offria and Donald ‘Three Proud People’ Mural
1.40 Jack Mundey Legendary environmental activist: responsible for the green bans that saved much of Sydney’s heritage & built environment. Former Chair, Historic Houses Trust & life member of the Australian Conservation Foundation.
1.50 Entertainment Bernie Hayes
Transport NSW is currently considering options for the alignment of the Western Express project which might result in the demolition of all houses on Leamington Avenue, Newtown, and more on Holdsworth and Pine Streets, to build the entrance to a railway tunnel. This tunnel is widely regarded as a poor quality proposal for addressing Sydney's transport problems.
Transport NSW will decide on its 'preferred rail alignment' in the coming months and we have a narrow window of opportunity to defeat this proposal. Save Leamington Avenue is a not-for-profit association founded to save our homes, save our community history and save Sydney from another poor transport policy by the State Government in the months before an election.
March and help save historic Leamington Ave
Local identities and musicians will also be attending, so please join us. For further information visit saveleamingtonavenue.org
They are very keen to have as many people as possible attend the event as they are hopeful there will be considerable media coverage. Please advise people of this important event and rally people to attend on the day.
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No to racist welfare quarantines!
Actions on Monday 14 July will target Centrelink offices when a policy that
has had the most acutely painful impact through this intervention - the
race-based quarantining of welfare payments - is rolling out into Aboriginal
communities in Qld and WA, and being considered by the NSW and SA
governments. In late May Environment Minister Peter Garrett raised the
possibility of extending measures like welfare quarantining into urban
Aboriginal communities, such as La Perouse in his electorate.
A year ago Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory were invaded and
martial law imposed. The Racial Discrimination Act had to be overridden
because these racist laws apply only to Aboriginal people. Those who
resisted the invasion have been fully vindicated. The intervention is not
about child sexual abuse. Communities are still crying out for more safe
houses, women's centres and child protection workers. That's because the
intervention was never intended to provide them in the first place.
Instead, it has been the cover for a massive land grab. By the start of June
not one cent of compensation or rent had been paid to Aborigines whose land
had been compulsorily acquired. The government has just got hold of the land
of the Alice Springs town camps for the next 40 years!
Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin has already announced that the
government is determined to strengthen the intervention into Aboriginal
communities. The number of people degraded and humiliated by having their
welfare "income managed" has risen sharply under Labor. In November, 1408
people in eight communities were being denied their rights in this way. By
the anniversary of the intervention in June this year, it had grown to
13,309 people in 52 communities, with Macklin promising "full coverage"
soon.
Over 1700 people have been "transitioned" off CDEP but only 667 have been
employed in government-funded jobs; the rest have been moved onto welfare
payments (and subsequently "income managed").
The cost of income management is around $3,000 per person per year - to
manage average annual welfare payments of around $10,000. That's $3,000 per
person paid to mostly white bureaucrats to ration out welfare payments to
Aboriginal people which could be put into genuine community-based solutions.
It's now clear that the Labor government will not roll back the compulsory
acquisition of Aboriginal land, or the suspension of the Racial
Discrimination Act of their own accord. Aboriginal rights have been won in
the past through the struggles of Aboriginal people, backed by
demonstrations and union action. The Aboriginal Rights Coalition exists to
organise and support opposition to the government's racist attacks on
Aboriginal people.
The Aboriginal Rights Coalition meets every Monday at 6pm at the Redfern Community Centre, Hugo St]]>
Fortunately for WAYS the Greens and the Coalition are seeking a Senate enquiry into this unreasonable action by the Commonwealth Government. WAYS also has members of the legal community come to our rescue and are representing us on a pro bono basis to seek redress for this injustice from the Commonwealth.
As part of the campaign to reverse this decision we are asking you as members of the community for support of a peaceful and non disruptive rally outside of the office of Mr Peter Garrett the Member for Kingsford Smith which incorporates the Maroubra area.
When we received notification of our defunding we sought his support to help us keep the service in the Maroubra area . Alas Mr Garrett the supposed Champion of the down trodden, blatantly refused to help us and supported in writing the governments decision to defund us.
Please join with us in a peaceful and non disruptive display to show our disagreement not only with the decision to defund us by the Commonwealth but at our local Member of Parliament’s refusal to help WAYS and the young people we service in Eastern Sydney.
We intend to deliver our Petition for refunding. Please join us in seeking the refunding of what is a very necessary service - 'Putting our youth in work'
This email may also be viewed in your web browser. Click the link below to see it:
http://waysyouthservices.createsend2.com/t/r/e/tilddl/hkkddyjr/
Russell King
CEO
WAYS Youth Employment Service
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1.00pm: Assemble at The Block, Redfern
1.15pm: March to St Saviours Church, Redfern
1.45pm: St Saviours Church Ecumenical Service
3.45pm: Service Finish
Contacts:
Ray Minniecon: 0417 929 701
David Williams: 0409 813 741
Harry Allie: (02) 8255 7614
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